Festival Wrap: Bentonville Film Festival 2017 Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
As the third woman from MovieMaker to attend the Bentonville Film Festival (May 2-7, 2017) in so many years of its existence, I arrived armed...
The Cat Documentary Taking NYC By Storm: Ceyda Torun and Charlie Wuppermann on Their Gorgeous Film KEDi
“People who don’t love animals don’t love people either.” So says a fishmonger in Istanbul in an early scene of KEDi, the first feature documentary...
MovieMaker Minute: Why Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name Was Shot Using Just One Lens
Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers. Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By...
MovieMaker Minute: Bitch’s Jason Ritter and Marianna Palka on Getting Acting Feedback
Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers. At last week’s Sundance Film...
Green Lights: The Redford Center and Sundance’s “The New Climate” Provide Support for Environmentalist Film
Climate activists, rejoice: new support systems for environmentalist filmmaking are sprouting up, and there’s one name behind the curtain—Redford. The Sundance Kid has long advocated...
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Punch-Drunk Love
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp of cultural importance....
Festival Wrap: Questions of Identity and Legacy Meet On Screen at the Hawaii International Film Festival 2016
Hawaii, you could say, has a Hawaii problem. It’s a place, like Paris or New York City, that has become more than geography. Hawaii is...
Something About Mammoth: Come to Mammoth Lakes Film Festival for the Line-up, Stay for Springtime in NorCal
Somewhere in the mountains of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, off Route 395 near Yosemite National Park, is the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival. You get there...
“Experience Life Itself, Good and Bad:” Terence Davies on Sunset Song, A Quiet Passion and How He Works
Terence Davies is hardly the most prolific of directors. In the 40 years since he began his cinematic career, he has made eight features and...
Texting in Theaters “Could Seriously Hurt Our Industry:” Tim League Releases Statement in Response to AMC’s Adam Aron
Recently instated AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron made headlines this week at CinemaCon when he floated the idea of allowing texting in AMC theaters to...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
11Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...